We just got in our mould for the production of our full carbon fibre rims. We intend to produce at least 8 rims for the new car with these moulds. The carbon fibre rims will be more stiff than our old hybrid aluminium-carbon ones, and might be a little bit lighter. The mould was produced by the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, for which we would like to thank professor Adriaan Beukers!

Due to rules changes of the Formula Student competition, the DUT09 team couldn’t re-use the old monocoque moulds. Therefore a new design was made and sent to Zeydon, who produced the corresponding moulds. Last week news arrived that the moulds were finished. Our Chief Chassis and Team manager didn’t hesitate and picked up the moulds today and placed them directly in the Laminating room. A good start of a promising production phase!